Open Realm of Stars 0.25.0

There is now new version available for Open Realm of Stars 0.25.0.

These update focus mainly on starmap performance and behaviour. There is now new way how star map is being drawn and this significantly improves frames per second. This can be noticed by moving the mouse. Previously game draw full star map always on screen. In this version it will keep track which tiles needs to be redrawn and only draws them. I also tried out adding a separate thread which would do the drawing, since it was quite easy to do. Drawing itself was quite separate method. This actually worked with my desktop, but for unknown reason drawing got slower on my laptop. So after that I decided to draw only tiles which were changed.

Second big feature is zooming in and out. Simply using mouse wheel, player is able to zoom in and out. This caused that all tiles were redrawn in 64x64 pixel size and then scaled to 32x32 and 16x16 tiles. Also black hole is now just regular tiles. Previously it was mixing the background pixels but that cause issues with new drawing routine. But I think new black hole tiles are better looking than the old ones, it is also faster to drawn.

There are couple of new perks for leader, mostly for commanders. Commander can gain experience by finding new planets or doing explore missions on planets. If they have cartographer or trekker perk experience is doubled from these tasks.

Background story is also bit more improved and there is more variant in texts. When game ends there are more events which are shown in full story of the realm. There also smaller improvements and bug fixes and Java7 is no longer supported. Java11 is now the minimum Java version. This should not cause any issues since Java7 is really old version.